Northbridge tips

[AmbientFiction]

I am sure you have at one point in time seen the crap heatsinks that some people put on your system when you buy them. Those nasty little black odd sized heatsinks with a fan that can't move enough air to even cool your hand if its sitting in it. Most of these fans are in the 40mm to 50mm range.
Well this is what I did. I took the plastic off of the greenie on the northbridge and put it back on with thermal paste and 3 dots of super glue on drop per corner all but one. Then after sometime of not being happy with my system and also upgrading my CPU to a 633mhz Celeron 2 cC0 stepping. I found the joys of 100mhz FSB. Needless to say my system temps went up. So I racked my brain trying to find a way to take the heatsink from my GPU and that crappy 40mm fan and put them on my Northbridge. It was a no go transistors were in the way so this is what I did. I super glued the fan to the greenie which in turn has dropped my temps down a good 4ºF.

 

[Super]

I superglued a fan onto my V3 HS. I wanted to do the same thing with northbridge, but my superglue lost its "magic" and I didn't feel like going out and buying another one, so I found a couple of screws, and screwed the fan to the northbridge. Holds well.

 

[AmbientFiction]

Lucky you I bet your holes lined up perfect right into the board didn't it? I had to super glue mine because of the fact that the holes in the board are even off sized for a Blorb. I hate this board! Tekram sucks almost as bad as compcrap.

 

[AmbientFiction]

Gonna break out the hacksaw tomorrow and cut my GPU heatsink down to size so I can have one on my southbridge and maybe I'll have enough left over to put one on my clock gen.

 

[asmodean]

There's 3 things that need cooling on a motherboard: the northbridge, the clock generator and the power transistors. Southbridge doesn't get hot at all, atleast not mine. Not even very warm to touch. Would look cool tho to have a HSF on it.

 

[AmbientFiction]

asmodean (Jul 30, 2001 06:51 a.m.):
There's 3 things that need cooling on a motherboard: the northbridge, the clock generator and the power transistors. Southbridge doesn't get hot at all, atleast not mine. Not even very warm to touch. Would look cool tho to have a HSF on it.

Well I wish I could say the same for mine but my southbridge it hot.

You say that the power transistors need a heatsink which one and where?

 

[outhouse]

there black square and have 3 prongs on them going into the MB, best thing is to feel around and if its hot it needs cooling if not your OK, I dont have HS's on my transistors because there not hot enough with my case cooling. As far as your Northbridge and Southbridge get a small CPU HSF and use that cut it down if you have too, in your other post about your Southbridge being hot well it sounds like the small HSF you want to put on that may be to small cooler the better and since ive seen CPU HSF's for 5 bucks you cant go wrong.

 

[AmbientFiction]

I too the old heatsink that came off my crap 16meg tnt which now has a Blorb on it , cut it down , got some 400 grain sand paper and started takeing off that powder coat. Then placed it on the South bridge and superglued the fan to it the same kind that I put on the northbridge. I can even hit a gig now but its not quite stable I am sure with a better heatsink with a delta 80mm high output on it I could post at a gig no problem.